Most of the time people that want to go vegan choose to try it that way. It makes it quite a lot easier as you don’t have to change your whole mindset from one day to the other.

You are also generalizing quite a lot. Think about that, it is not nice.

Sorry, but this is not a China discussion. If it was a American vehicle which was controlled from the US, it wouldn’t be any less dangerous.

It is simply dumb to rate long term Cyber Security threats only based on current political climate.

You are absolutely right. But they are working on it for I think 20 years now. Which is really great, but not a new development based on recent political discussions.

Well. Buses and trucks are usually not as tightly integrated as, say, the operating system of a computer, or the inverter of a photo voltaic system. So to disable this telemetry and over the air update capability, you can simply unplug the connectivity ECU (or its fuse). It will likely trigger a warning indication on the driver instrument cluster, but that’s it.

An easy fix like this is not really there for windows or other Microsoft infrastructure.

And to your point that things are being done to reduce the dependency on Microsoft… I have yet to see any serious efforts in this direction. All I have read about are relatively small instances.

What about the remote updates in every single windows computer that runs everything in Europe?

Is that not a concern?

This is not a backdoor. This is the remote update „feature“ that customers want.

Over the air updates and remote diagnostics are both things that are sold as features and are often even requested by the transportation companies.

To be honest I am a bit surprised that they are surprised this exists.

To be completely honest: there are even ECE regulations regarding software updates over the air.

This is nothing new and nothing special. Almost all vehicles these days are connected to their manufacturer.

Also regarding deactivating this „feature“. It is usually quite simple, just unplug the connectivity ECU.

I am continuously unimpressed by things Ola says… Dieter Zetsche wouldn’t have made such dumb statements and decisions.

On the other hand, the Heidelberg Christmas market is really nothing special.

I have been told that ZF is almost always difficult to work with from an OEM perspective.

Yet somehow people still use PS or horsepower in everyday language. At least in Germany.

Lots of people use fusion360. It has a free license for hobbyists. Although it is a cloud-first software. There is always the risk of them canceling that free license.

But I have yet to find a good enough replacement…

Again. LLMs don’t know anything. They don’t have a „knowledge base“ like you claim. As in a database where they look up facts. That is not how they work.

They give you the answer that sounds most likely like a response to whatever prompt you give it. Nothing more. It is surprising how good it works, but it will never be 100% fact based.

This is not correct. The current chatbots don’t „know“ anything. And even the ones with web access hallucinate

Sure. But we currently have LLMs. Everybody is training them. But it is a dead end. The current efforts will NOT translate to the AI you are talking about.

Why though? When you run multiple services on your machine, conflicts between these can cause headaches. Updating them is also often not trivial on bare metal. Let alone migrating to a newly set up machine (I suppose you could automate that with something like ansible)

What would you prefer and why? Bare metal?

Are both parties online at the same time?

Maybe something like this is a good solution: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

It will figure out the fastest p2p connection and send even very large files without hassle.

They are for the local market. It is not easy (but not impossible) to order from Taobao if you are outside of China.

How about actually offering electric vehicles? They have one electric vehicle. One! Out of >10 models.

You are obviously lying.